Transformation Term Papers Samples For Students

Business Intelligence and enterprise data mining management

A data warehouse is a kind of database designed to enable business intelligence solutions. Data warehouses are used to understand and enhance a performance. The warehouse is designed to query and analyze instead of merely conducting transaction processing. Historical data may be derived from transaction data but can include data from other locations. Data warehouse separates analysis workload from transaction workload, giving the organization the ability to maintain historical records and analyze the data to gain better understanding of the business and improve its practices. The environment in a data warehouse includes extraction, transportation, transformation and loading – referred as the ETL solution, ...

Introduction

Stainless steel is an important component in the modern industry having various uses in the industry. This has forced new developments in its manufacturing especially in terms of its composition. This can be the steel made from aluminum, manganese, and iron. All these materials makes the finished stainless steel product unique in terms of its composition, physical metallurgy, and other factors. This paper is going to discuss the development in stainless steel technology with regards to its composition in terms of the materials used. The materials that are going to be discusses are Al, Mn, and Fe. The paper ...

The discovery of DNA as the genetic material was one of the landmark events in the field of biology. By confirming DNA as the genetic material scientists made a huge leap that has advanced the cause of medical science to a great degree. While discussing the discovery of DNA as the genetic material, we mostly speak of Friedrich Miescher (1871), the man who discovered DNA. After the discovery of DNA a significant number of studies were conducted that proved DNA as the genetic material. Then Griffith, (1928) conducted studies on bacterial transformation and indicated that genetic information can be transferred from one ...

In 2006's The Devil Wears Prada, aspiring journalist Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) finds herself as the personal assistant to the editor-in-chief of a large fashion magazine, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). Andy, who purports to care little about fashion, is quickly put in her place by the cold, calculating and abrasive Miranda. Over the course of the film, Andy learns more about fashion and clothing, and squares off against the increasingly antagonistic Miranda. In essence, the film showcases the glamorous yet ultimately empty and emotionless life of the fashion world, and its costumes indicate the wild contrasts and extremes women have ...

Cancer is one of the most common causes of death worldwide. Every year, various types of cancer kill millions of people. The problem of cancer disease is unique because of its complexity and importance to humankind. Cancers affect all segments of the population, causing enormous damage to society. Although malignant tumors are extremely diverse and complex for the perception, the risk factors and mechanisms of development of cancer are well known enough so that it becomes possible not only to heal, but also to engage in cancer prevention. Cancer is the most difficult and dangerous disease, since it can ...

Humanistic model claims that the knowledge, skills and abilities (competencies) are perceived not only as a learning objective, but also as a means of development and implementation of creative students. Humanistic pedagogy teaches relevant to each individual child as a value. It tends to be a so-called "free education”, so try to adjust to the type of egalitarian relations in the educational community and partner interaction style of senior and junior. The humanistic model of education focuses on the variability of educational programs and the implementation of individual educational trajectories. Humanistic understanding of education and training processes allows to ...

DNA, the basic unit of inheritance, has a long history which takes us thousands of years back into the past. It is highly important to have apt knowledge of DNA. In its truest sense, our knowledge of DNA begins with the results of the experiment conducted by Gregor Mendel in the year 1857. He is known by the name of “Father of Genetics”. The study of genetics was further taken ahead by Friedrich Miescher upon his discovery of a substance which he called as nuclein in the year 1869. Later on, he progressed with his experimentations and discovered another ...

The British Occupation of Egypt in 1882

Introduction
Mixed reactions were rampant with reference to the occupation. The European had various opinions and reasons for occupying the country including promotion of trade and development of perceptions and civilization in the country. On the other hand, the Egyptians felt their land was being taken, and their heritage was being taken away from them as well. Both reactions of resistance and collaboration led to different results in the country. The results were both positive and negative to the people especially concerning the economic sector. There is a great relationship between the historical occupation and economy.

Origin of the Occupation

After constructing and ...

Executive Summary

Technology is one of the best scientific developments that have brought about economic, social, and political change in most of the world’s economies. Nevertheless, there are varied reactions on the effect of technology on the environment, the economy, religion, culture, and politics among a host of many social, economic, and political phenomena. Conversely, these factors also affect technology in different ways as will be discussed in this paper. Nevertheless, selecting technology for a specific situation depends on a list factors that either support or oppose such incentives.

Introduction

Science and technology are the current century’s most influential challenges since it affects ...

Comparison of the Landfill Facilities

This paper will compare two landfills; the Landfill Gas Capture and Flaring Facility in Alexandria and the Bantar Gebang dumpsite in Bekasi.
The Landfill Gas Capture and Flaring Facility in Alexandria is used to contain the solid waste from four districts within the Greater Cairo in Egypt. However, the dumping site could not meet the minimum measures for pollution management prompting the Alexandria Governorate to hire a corporate that could ensure effective solid waste control in the area. The solid waste on the landfills at El Hammam and Borg El Arab give out methane which when emitted to the ...

Ethics and leadership

Leaders are expected to be people of high moral and abide with ethical ways of executing their leadership functions and in the exercise of their authorities. Plato and Aristotle in their books taught how political leaders should be ethical in their conduct of state tasks. Using the democracy of ancient Athens they argue on how ethics cannot be separated from politics, as political leaders should exhibit high level of ethical standard in all they do. It is believed that Aristotle taught Alexander the great about ethics and politics (Morgan, p. 253)
The level of ethical and morally disciplined a ...

Introduction

The University Art Museum has gone through a unique and compelling series of revolutions. The various managers and individuals who have laid hands on the Museum can be credited for the transformation, development and growth of the facility. Having a stable grounded foundation that can be traced back in the 1920s the museum holds a unique and source of enrichment to the students and the societies in general. This stipulates the essence of developing strategic approaches that will enhance effective and efficient run on the facility as various founders had wished to. The essential analogy that needs to be stipulated within the ...

Netflix’s marketing strategy change

Introduction
Change is an integral part of everyday life both for organizations and individuals. It is often considered negative, since it involves a certain level of stress for the system and a disruption of the conventional organizational practices. However, along with the negative side, change also entails benefits, if it is conducted in the right way. This paper aims to present an example of the recent change in Netflix strategy and to explain the possible reasons for its failure. This example applies change management theories and concepts to the Netflix case, in order to identify what went wrong and, thus ...

Introduction

According to Alexander (2014), the oil sands of Alberta have around 1.7 to 2.7 trillion barrels of bitumen reserves. The recoverable oil resource in Canada is second only to that of the leading oil producer, Saudi Arabia. The vast oil reserves are capable of supplying Canada’s energy needs for over 500 years. Presently, nearly 40 percent of Canada’s oil production is generated from the oil sands (Alexander, 2014). They comprise mainly of bitumen mixed by sand and water. Alberta’s major oil sands are located in Cold Lake, Athabasca, and Peace River. Different deposits and areas have ...

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The Tavistock Model was originally developed at the Tavistock Clinic in London around the onset of the First World War It started as a classroom experiment for students studying infants, but soon became an accepted practice throughout the social science field as a means of observing infants, children, and adults. The model itself has deep roots in Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory and was developed as a collaboration between child psychoanalyst Esther Bick and Dr. John Bowlby. Because the concentration started as a means of observing the stages of emotional and mental development in children, ...

Nowadays a lot of problematic issues and controversies about people’s social, religious, racial and gender identity have been discussed. Equality of human rights, recognition of basic moral and ethical principles, tolerance and respect towards people with different background are the main conditions of real freedom and democracy. Although, people have started realizing new progressive ideals and there has been a significant decrease in the race discrimination rates, the problem of transgender identity still remains unsolved and public offense or misunderstandings still very frequently occur in different mass media sources. Many people wonder, why one should change his or ...

Introduction

The 18th century is one of the most significant years in the history of man especially with regard to slave trade and slavery. This is because in its last stages, the world experienced two of the most renowned and successful anti-colonial revolutions against slave trade both in Latin America as well as in the Caribbean. The first, which was the revolution against Latin American slavery culminated in 1783. Nine years later, the world witnessed a second Haitian revolution which commenced with massive insurrection of slaves in the region in 1791, culminating with the first of slavery abolitions in French ...

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Introduction

The global information system has been influenced by various factors including culture at various levels of an organization, national and local. Global culture has played an important role in influencing IT processes. The result is a global information system that evolves according to the situation varying across national cultures. It has been evident in global multinational corporations. Studies provide a rich narrative of how national values and organizational values have impacted the adoption and development of Information Systems. This impact has been upon the management, strategy, use ...

Social Class and Education

Social Class and Education

Introduction

There is an increasing population in many regions of the world today. This increase comes with an increased diversification in the major sectors of the world including the political, social, and economic sectors. This diversification in these sectors contributes to the rapid development of social classes in these regions. The social classes are the various groupings in the societies with which particular individuals identify themselves. On the other hand, the increasing globalization and challenges in various political, social and economic segments have promoted the increase in the levels of education in various regions around the ...

The success of military action during the war times has leadership as the main component. The leaders are therefore shaped in relation to the situations they face in their life and daily life activities. The leaders have a great effect on the outcomes during their interaction with the diverse information, people, resources and the general environment they operate in. This movie also shows the first phase relating to the Second World War. The situation exposed to General Frank Savage while leading the bomber squadron in England during the Second World War. This therefore helps in demonstrating the leadership styles of ...

The Transformative learner

According to Jack Mezirow (1996), transformative learning is the process of using prior interpretation to construe a revised or a new interpretation of the meaning of an individual's experience in order to guide future actions" The transformative learning theory outlines the process of perspective transformation as having three broad dimensions,Behavioral,conventional and psychological. Through the transformative learning, the individual (learner) goes under a change in perspective, the way he conceptualizes the world, himself and others around him.

Various authors have identified three factors that determine if a student will turn out be a transformative learner:

- Characteristics of the instructor and the student
- Learning environment
- Instructional activities
(Jones 2008) Developing students are not simply ...

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Economic systems aim at developing a sustainable economy that is expected to satisfy the needs of the citizens in the country. An efficient economic system produces the maximum amount of goods by using the production factors at the possible highest productivity level. Productivity is one aspect in an efficient economic system. The other aspect of an efficient system is to distribute the economic production fairly and efficiently among the citizens. The equality in the distribution influences the productivity level of the country.
Considering that the citizens of the country are the entrepreneurs, the workers, and the consumers ...

This paper is divided into three sections. The first section is a review of academic research and studies on corporate theories, positions and counter-positions. The second part discusses the two theories – stakeholder value theory and shareholder value theory. This section evaluates key arguments associated with each theory. In the third part, the paper evaluates why value-driven stakeholder approach should be embraced by managers of corporations. The paper finalizes the discussion by concretizing the arguments in a summary and offering submissions for future managers.
This paper hypothesizes that profit maximization is no longer the only priority of organizations; other non-economic features ...

Introduction

The issues of death and afterlife of the dead have been the most fictional ever known topic for discussion in almost every community of human race. Countless number of literary works has been made by numerous authors to explore the fact behind the perceptions people possess about the aforesaid aspects; however, the truth still remains undiscovered for lack of a convincing conclusion. The subject of death and underworld life has always inspired authors across generations to make creative writings meant for the enthusiasm of readers of all age. The Odyssey and Gilgamesh are known for their balanced levels of fictional ...

Kohl’s International Expansion

Before any company or organization proceed with plans to expand internationally, the management needs to assess the viability of doing so. Part of assessment is determining the advantages and potential contributions of international expansion to the organization (Hines & Bruce, 2007). The organization may also assess and plan expansion simultaneously. In this way, the management can determine where the organization will invest for foreign expansion and how the organization would do it. Practices in planning and assessment will be applied in this discussion in relation to Kohl’s. Kohl’s is a retail chain store based in the United States and ...

A fundamental and seismic shift has occurred in virtually every field and sector known to mankind due to the emergence digital media. The way national political campaigns are done has changed, the mode of communication has changed, the level of interaction and virtually every activity that man engages in including business has not been spared either by the emergence of digital media. People are now able to receive news in real time and observe and connect with the whole world, a factor that has led to the emergence of the global village. More opportunities such as outsourcing and online education ...

Comparing Z. Freud’s Conceptions and E. Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development
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Psychosocial development theory is the theory of psychosocial reeks of personality, created by Eric Erickson, in which he describes the eight stages of personality development and focuses on the development of the individual I am.
The issue of personality psychosocial development is not only of scientific interest. Psychoanalysis seeks and finds the roots of the problems in the various stages of childhood and adolescence. It turns out that not only all of us from childhood, but our ...

Information technology is advancing extremely fast. The society is adapting to the changes, but the changes have not been understood by many in the societies. The forces of changes in information technology have not only impacted in the communication sector but all sectors of the economy. Information technology through the internet has resulted into a global village where geographical distance is no longer a limiting factor for two parties to do business. For those who are in the information technology sector, it is not easy to predict what will be the next state of information technology. The fact is that the ...

Abstract

In this research, I choose to write about the strategic human resource management. My choice is dictated by the increasing need by companies to create a competitive advantage through their human resource departments. The choice is also due to the desire for a change from the traditional HR focus on employees rather than strategy in the discharge of their duties. This paper seeks to elaborately discuss and explain the need, benefits and implications of a transformation the human resource management of organizations from focusing on employees to strategy focus in the pursuit of organizational goals. It also seeks to explore the challenges ...

This paper is aimed at exploring various elements through which our nonverbal behavior affects our communication. This paper starts with a brief introduction about non-verbal communication and then proceeds to defining it. After a brief definition of non-verbal communication this paper presents several elements of non-verbal nature which play vital role in non-verbal communication. Further in the paper these elements are shown in respect of their role in overall communication. The paper is concluded with a brief and concise conclusion at the end. This paper mainly addresses the situation of a public speaker in order to analyze the effects of non-verbal communication in ...

Introduction

Operations Management (OM) is a broad area involved with the comprehensive research, planning and execution of all activities in an organization that lead to a creation of value for its stakeholders. One of its foremost goals is increasing the efficiency of operations through the reduction of waste, and delivering precisely the value that a customer has paid for. An important part of functional operation management is resource planning and resource scheduling activities that ensure a continuous production of services and/or goods, eliminate excess inventory, and deliver the required value at precisely the location the customer wants at the time the customer wants. These ...

Banking industry in Malaysia

The Malaysian banking industry can be traced back to the early 1900s during a period of rapid economic development mainly due to the increasing profits accrued from the rubber plantations and the tin industry. This resulted to the opening of branches of foreign banks in the country and the establishment of the first domestic bank in the country, Kwong Yik Banking Corporation during 1913, which is presently the Malaysian Banking Berhad (Alexander, 2007). This set the pace for the growth of the industry and its subsequent expansion to include the setting up of Bank Negara Malaysia, which is the country’ ...

Introduction

The current business world is undergoing major transformation as a result of several factors related to the globalization of the economy, increased scrutiny by regulatory authorities and the critical role being played by talented workforce. All these are having a huge impact on the human resource profession. HR has transformed immensely over the past decades from doing functions that are mainly maintenance to position itself as a strategic department paying a key role in promoting an organization’s competitive advantage. Management has started to realize the critical role the HR department plays when it comes to the success of an organization. The changing ...

Africa is a continent with vast untapped and unexploited natural resources, and China due to its growing economy; has a demand for these resources. China has therefore helped Africa to re-establish it self as source of valuable commodities for the Global market and also assisted to put a focus on Africa’s politics and why it remains poor (Snow 1998, 64).

China’s interest in Africa is empirical and obvious; it needs to secure oil for its fast growing economy and Africa is open to the idea, in inference to the opportunity of foreign investment. Chinese industries rely heavily on imported raw ...